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4:15 PM ET, August 18, 2025

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Axios:
Trump-Zelensky summit: The suit question, again  —  The White House asked Ukrainian officials if President Volodymyr Zelensky will wear a suit to his meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, two sources with direct knowledge tell Axios.
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Sarah Ewall-Wice / The Daily Beast:
Trump Snubs Greatest Allies With Greeting From Fox News Host  —  LATER!  —  European leaders arriving at the White House were met by the Chief of Protocol, Monica Crowley.  —  After rolling out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, President Donald Trump …
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Zelenskyy in the lion's den  —  European leaders need to get Trump off the dangerous path laid out for him by Putin  —  Memories of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's last disastrous trip to the Oval Office will hang over the Ukrainian president's visit to the White House on Monday.
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Chaotic Truth Social Meltdown Hours Before High-Stakes Meeting
New York Times:
Live Updates: Zelensky and Allies Head to White House to Show Unity on Ukraine
Emma Colton / Fox News:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's wardrobe choice for his high-stakes meeting with Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and IJR
NPR:
Trump and Zelenskyy meet with 2 big issues in focus: security guarantees and land
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Angry Trump Accidentally Blurts Out Unnerving New Plot to Rig Midterms  —  President Donald Trump raged at Democrats Monday for supposedly cheating in elections in a long and unhinged Truth Social rant—and buried in his tirade is a clear indication of how he hopes to corrupt the 2026 midterm elections …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Pledges Unconstitutional Order to Limit Mail-In Voting After Putin Chat  —  The president demanded that states do what the federal government “tells them,” after announcing an executive order aimed at banning mail-in voting … Despite lacking any sort of constitutional power on the matter …
Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Trump Promises New, Blatantly Unconstitutional Order to End Mail-In Voting
Avery Lotz / Axios:   Trump raises end to mail-in ballots after claiming Putin questioned their security
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
MSNBC to Change Its Name—And Lose the Peacock Logo  —  The cable news network will adopt the new name MS NOW ahead of its spinoff from NBCUniversal  —  MSNBC is changing its name in its spinoff from Comcast's NBCUniversal.  —  The left-leaning cable network will rebrand as My Source News Opinion World …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
MSNBC is getting a new name as part of its split from NBC News  —  As the cable news channel MSNBC splits up with NBC News, it is also dropping the NBC from its name.  —  Later this year, the channel will become MS NOW, which stands for My Source for News, Opinion, and the World.
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Gut Check Time For Democrats  —  Send this to your senators.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Every lengthy government shutdown in my lifetime has been a consequence of Republican extortion.  —  The structure and rules of our government all but demand that annual budgeting be a cooperative enterprise …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
Republican Bid to Help Trump Move Past Epstein Falls Flat … Speaker Mike Johnson has said that the House could not address the Epstein files while the courts were weighing in.Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times  —  When House Republican leaders rushed to leave Washington for a long August break …
Associated Press:
Texas Democrats return to Capitol for Republicans' US House map overhaul as California counters
Office of Governor Tate Reeves:
Governor Reeves Statement On Mississippi National Guard Deployment to Washington, D.C.  —  Governor Tate Reeves today released the following statement on approving the deployment of approximately 200 Mississippi National Guard Soldiers to Washington, D.C.:  —  “I've approved the deployment …
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Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
No, Trump's Fascist Takover of D.C. Is Not Good for Restaurants
Discussion: The Hill, The Independent and WUSA
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:   A Modest Proposal: Send Blue State National Guardsmen to D.C.
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims  —  The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday.
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Wall Street Journal:
White House in Talks With Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake  —  Money earmarked for chipmaker under Chips Act could be converted into equity  —  Trump administration officials are discussing taking a 10% stake in Intel as part of a government effort to rescue the embattled chipmaker, according to people briefed on the talks.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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Bloomberg:
Trump Administration in Talks to Take a 10% Stake in Intel  —  The Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of about 10% in Intel Corp., according to a White House official and other people familiar with the matter, in a move that could see the US become the beleaguered chipmaker's largest shareholder.
Ruth Marcus / New Yorker:
Pam Bondi's Power Play  —  Donald Trump now has the Attorney General he always wanted—an ally willing to harness the law to enable his agenda.  —  It is rare for an Attorney General of the United States to venture into the offices of the Justice Department's National Security Division.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Pam Bondi Secretly Betrayed Matt Gaetz to Get Attorney General Gig
Discussion: Raw Story
Laura Reiley / New York Times:
What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life  —  Sophie's Google searches suggest that she was obsessed with autokabalesis, which means jumping off a high place.  Autodefenestration, jumping out a window, is a subset of autokabalesis, I guess, but that's not what she wanted to do.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Why MAGA calls Trump “Daddy”  —  Yes, it's a weird sex thing.  But it also reveals secret insecurities  —  The MAGA movement is determined to make politics as disgusting as possible, destroying democracy one juvenile 4chan meme at a time.  It turns out that American fascism isn't just wrapped …
Discussion: Raw Story
Rick Bright / New York Times:
America Is Giving Up a Lifesaving Medical Breakthrough: mRNA  —  In early 2020, when the first genetic sequence of the new coronavirus was posted online, scientists were ready.  Within hours, they began designing a vaccine.  Within weeks, clinical trials were underway.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Rosie Thomas / 404 Media:
TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers  —  TikTok Shop is selling GPS trackers marketed with viral videos that have voiceovers explicitly encouraging secretly tracking a romantic partner.  Some of the videos have millions of views, and TikTok Shop's own metrics show …
Discussion: The Verge
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Bondi Aides Corrupted Antitrust Enforcement, Ousted DOJ Official Says  —  Roger Alford, formerly second-in-command of the antitrust division, called on a court to scrutinize merger case that led to his firing  —  An antitrust lawyer who was dismissed last month from the Justice Department …
Zeteo:
The Vice President Who Can't Stop Taking Vacations  —  8 trips in 7 months - what could possibly go wrong for JD Vance, the tone-deaf veep who wants to succeed Trump in 3 years?  —  Team Zeteo  —  ∙ Paid  —  JD Vance is the talk of the town over in the Cotswolds …
Discussion: MSNBC
emptywheel:
Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia  —  There's a great deal of normalcy bias in the reporting on Trump's capitulation.  NYT reports (based on watching the Sunday shows) that Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff “hint” that Putin will make concessions to reach a plea deal with Ukraine …
 
 
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